Tuesday, September 03, 2013

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JoNova

  • Astounding discovery: World War II had low car ...
    USS Pennsylvania leads convoy to reduce Japanese carbon emissions Tom Quirk sends me thought provoking news. Since 1920, ice cores from Law Dome show only one significant pause in an otherwise relentless rise in CO2. Ominously, that sole plateau occurs from 1940 to 1950. If human activity drives ...
  • Tophers 50:1 project
    No one does this quite like Topher :- ) Emails have been arriving all afternoon. Project website is here. There are 40-50 minutes versions of all the interviews. Let me know the highlights from other videos and I’ll list suggestions for those who just want the best ten minutes. Rating: 10. ...
  • The opportunity the Coalition/Tories/Republica ...
    How do we fund science? So far, conservative politicians don’t get it… Most conservative governments have bowed to the name-calling bullies for far too long. They are either fooled by the names (do they think “denier” is a scientific term?), or they are so afraid of being ...
  • Our daily big-government bread (Unthreaded)
        Our taxpayers give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debt to our largely free university education, and lead us not into skeptic temptation but deliver us from evil.   Written by Maverick on the site.     Yes, this i ...
  • Compare policies: Labor takes $900 per house t ...
    There are not many serious comparisons of the ALP vs Coalition policies on “climate change”. Don Young, a statistician and IT consultant in Canberra, with experience at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and in Washington, is now (happily) retired and has had time to take a cl ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Popsci - Science

Facing South

  • VOICES: Organize the South or die
    Image Caption:  MaryBe McMillan, secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, at Moral Monday, June 24, 2013. Why the South matters to the future of labor. read more
  • In effort to end prison rape, questions about ...
    Image Caption:  It took years to enact tougher standards for investigating and punishing sexual violence in the nation's jails and prisons. Now, there is frustration over how those reforms will be enforced. (Adam Fagen, Flickr) ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Striking for fast food justice
    Image Caption:  Fast food workers went on strike in cities across the country this week to demand higher pay. (Graphic from the SEIU.) Fast food workers in cities across the South and elsewhere in the U.S. went on strike this ...
  • Why waste a good huracán?
    Image Caption:  Derrick Christopher Evans discusses his philosophy on the meaning and unfulfilled promise of disasters on the Gulf Coast. (Still from Bridge the Gulf video.) In this Bridge the Gulf video, Derrick Christopher E ...
  • SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How Art Pope helped tur ...
    Image Caption:  Art Pope, a conservative mega-donor and North Carolina budget director, played important but behind-the-scenes roles in the passage of one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws. The conservative meg ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Summer warmth similar to 1976 in some areas
    Summer (June, July and August) 2013 across the UK has turned out to be the driest, warmest and sunniest since 2006, according to provisional Met Office data.  It’s a huge contrast from the awful weather of last summer which was the wettest for 100 years. More interestingly from a local perspecti ...
  • Rest of July & early August outlook
    Although our weather has turned more unsettled, temperatures remain well above average.  To illustrate how warm it has been, at Linton on Ouse in North Yorkshire, up to and including the 24th July, the mean maximum temperature stood at 24.44C which places the month 3rd warmest on record.  Of cou ...
  • Exceptional July weather coming to an abrupt end
    July so far has been exceptionally dry, warm and sunny, but a notable change in the weather is expected in the next 36 hours.  At Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, less than 2mm of rain has fallen so far this month.  It’s fair to say that farmers and gardeners are now very keen for rain, althou ...
  • Outlook for the rest of July
    Friday will see the heat returning to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.  On Tuesday Linton-on-Ouse recorded 28.7C (84F) making it the hottest day in our region of the year so far, and there’s a chance that temperatures on Friday, perhaps again somewhere in the Vale of York, will be slightly higher sti ...
  • At long last, summer is here
    Summer is with us at last, with high pressure now building across the country.  A very weak weather front on Sunday may increase cloud for a time possibly leading to one or two showers. There is also a chance of a little sea fret at times along the coast. But most of us will see a lot of very wa ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Can 'Impact Investing' Whitewash JP Morgan Mal ...
    Financial services titan JP Morgan is many things to many people given its vast size. Bank regulators currently know it best for the nefarious activities of the so-called 'London Whale' whose activities have caused the firm billions of dollars in losses. There's also this new controversy over th ...
  • S China Sea: PRC Unwelcomes Philippine President
    All China's hard work building economic ties with Southeast Asia is now in peril: Hot on the heels of the Philippines taking China to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) against China's wishes--the PRC has constantly reiterated that it wants to solve the maritime dispute bil ...
  • UK Ditches US on Syria: Bye Special Relationship!
    In 2010 I wrote about the UK Parliament publishing documents about how it should have a foreign policy more independent from that of the US, special relationship be damned. This, of course, came a few years after Tony Blair was portrayed in British media as Bush's poodle. At the time, few believ ...
  • Death $: Tracking US Military Aid to Egypt
    I was watching Al Jazeera, designated the "real news" by Hillary Clinton, when I came across an interesting feature about how US military sales to Egypt were publicly disclosed by law. A little sleuthing brought me to the Department of Defense website. A Bing search (talk about irregularities in ...
  • United States' UN Hatred vs Seafarers' Rights
    The [UN] Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference - John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN 2005-2006 How much has US thinking changed about prospects for international cooperation, multilateralism and all that good stuff about b ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Is The United States Going To Go To War With S ...
    Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?  Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria?  Of course.  Qatar wants to install a puppet regim ...
  • Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Adva ...
    Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.  In fact, the P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles that Russia has equipped Syria with are the most advanced anti-ship missiles that Russia has.  When the United States strikes Syria, they might be ...
  • The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For A ...
    Why is the Obama administration so determined to have the U.S. military help al-Qaeda win the civil war in Syria?  Why are we being told that the U.S. has "no choice" but to help rabid jihadist terrorists that are slaughtering entire Christian villages, brutally raping Christian women and joyful ...
  • Who Benefits From A War Between The United Sta ...
    Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.  Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly means "to whose benefit?"  The key to figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who will benefit from [...]
  • 25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That ...
    If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British.  Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • A Tale of Three Australian Inquiries – P ...
    Everyone supporting survivors in Australia seems to have been suffering from constant exhaustion for the last few months, trying to keep up with three different inquiries and numerous media issues. They do say to be careful what you wish for. Every time we are tempted not to bother dragging ours ...
  • US Court considers dead bodies more important ...
    The law is frequently an ass. But few laws or lawyers are more asinine than the recent decision by US District Court Judge Hon Rudolph T Randa. Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese appealed against a previous decision allowing the funds stashed away in a Cemetery Trust in 2008 to be included in the di ...
  • Song of Lying Bishops
    To the tune of Song of Joy Come, hear our lame excuses We tell to all Inquiries We don’t care if you believe us We fool the Catholics on their knees   Lie after lie we can tell And no one will ever Do a thing That’s because the Catholic Mafia Ensure that we’re above your l ...
  • Newcastle Diocese’s Disgrace – Mem ...
    Public hearings of the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry in Newcastle in recent weeks have left survivors and supporters disappointed, horrified, traumatised, gasping in disgust, occasionally giggling, and even bravely protesting before the media contingent. And finally, applauding the amazing b ...
  • Fasten your seat belts, its going to get bumpy
    Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis, snarled this famous line before a party brimming with hidden undercurrents, lies, and deception, in the 1950 film, All About Eve. We are in for a bumpy few years. It’s going to get bumpier come September, when the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and N ...

WL Central

  • 2013-09-01 Detached Reflections on Resignation ...
    Daniel Matthews offers a furtive thought in the context of his resignation on behalf of pure democracy: read more
  • 2013-08-22 Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 yea ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WikiLeaks whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today, an outrage that flies in the face of America's essential ideals of accountability in government, and which seeks to instill a chilling effect on those who'd dare to expose the United S ...
  • 2013-08-31 Manning: 35 years
    Ft Meade: Colonel Denise Lind sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years prison. read more
  • 2013-08-21 Manning lawyer to address sentence
    What: David Coombs to give statement and take questions When: 3 hours after court closes following sentencing tomorrow, approximately 1:30 PM Where: The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd, Hanover, MD 21076 Notes: Free parking in the hotel's parking structure, 2nd Floor Confer ...
  • 2013-08-17 Sam Adams statement on award to Snowden
    The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence gave the 2013 award for 'truth telling' to Edward Snowden. Following is their official statement. read more

U N News

  • Ban appoints Colombian to head UN-backed commi ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today appointed Iván Velásquez Gómez of Colombia to head the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala.
  • UN envoy tells Security Council overdue polls ...
    The ongoing electoral stalemate in Haiti, already linked to socio-economic grievances, could undermine the political and security situations, the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country said in her first briefing to the Security Council.
  • UN climate change body partners with Latin Ame ...
    The United Nations climate change secretariat has signed an agreement with the Latin American Development Bank to increase participation in clean development projects in the region, it was today announced.
  • UN independent expert calls on US to ban prolo ...
    As nearly 200 inmates in California detention centres approach their fifth consecutive week on hunger strike against cruel, inhuman and degrading prison conditions, a United Nations right expert today urged the Government of the United States to abolish the use of prolonged or indefinite solitar ...
  • School meal programmes benefit children, suppo ...
    School feeding programmes in Latin America are having a positive impact on children's well-being and are fostering local development when food is sourced from family fa

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The “Ant ...
    Sitting about an earlier Campfire, I spun the tale of how the great eastern forest was hewn down in the 1800s.  Though cutting down the forest seemed to have an unbreakable hold on the national mind, a few Americans called for keeping some forest, and their words were seeds that led to protectio ...
  • SPECIAL RALLY FOR WOLVES UPDATE!
          Dear Rally attendees and supporters, Here’s a special update for The National Rally to Protect America’s Wolves! that we know you’ll find both helpful and inspiring. The Rally is a week away and we hope to see you there! SPEAKERS Currently there are eleven ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Buff ...
    Never seen a redder sunrise Never seen a sunset so black Men with guns along the railroad See them coming down the track They killed the Bison by the millions They left them rottin’ on the ground The cries of death and destruction Can’t you hear that awful sound The Buffalo are gone The Buffalo ...
  • TrekWest Blog 39: Crafting a Wild Mosaic in th ...
    Posted: 21 Aug 2013 08:50 AM PDT Side trip to northern New Mexico, late June “It’s a sad irony, but one we need to acknowledge for the birds, that we have so upset Western hydrology that some of the only remaining riparian and wetland habitats for native species are artificial, like marshes behi ...
  • American Bird Conservancy Job Notice – Interna ...
    American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is looking for a high-energy individual who is able to work effectively in partnership to develop and direct bird conservation programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.  This International Conservation Program Office will focus his/her work on one or more of th ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Obama's Shoes on White House Furniture... Bad ...
    Maybe putting his shoe up on the desk is just a reflection of the arrogance and sense of self importance that dominates Obama's bloated view of himself. ~ Photos read more
  • China Has Big Plans... 'China Cities' And 'Spe ...
    What in the world is China up to?  Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural reso ...
  • Widower Enters Songwriting Contest... Submits ...
    When 96-year-old Fred saw a songwriting contest advertised in the paper he couldn’t help but write one for his wife who’d passed away only a month earlier. They had been together since the 30′s. ~ Video read more
  • Pennsylvania Homeschooler Pays $7,143.54 for S ...
    Pennsylvania man tries to pay the school portion of his property taxes, $7143, in dollars bills to show a visualization of how much money is being forcibly stolen from him against his will. ~ MUST see Video read more
  • Was Kate Middleton Ever Pregnant?... Baby Alle ...
    Some people claim the British princeling is the anti-Chrst and is  infertile. If that is so, was Kate Middleton ever pregnant? Was she wearing a fake pregnant belly? ~ Videos read more

Tarpley

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Solberg won’t rule out attack on Syria
    Erna Solberg, who may become Norway’s next prime minister after Monday’s parliamentary election, seems to be keeping the door open for an attack on Syria even without a UN mandate. Current Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg won’t go along with a US-led attack but was likely to dis ...
  • Conservatives win school elections
    Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) scored what some were calling an “historic” victory on Tuesday when it won the nationwide school elections that poll teenage students all over the country. It was the first time Høyre won the highly symbolic “skolevalget,” and Høy ...
  • Battle begins over finance ministry
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway’s small, conservative Christian Democrats party (Kristelig Folkeparti, KrF) may end up with control over the country’s powerful finance ministry in a conservative coalition government, even though KrF only has around 5 percent of the vote in public opinion polls ...
  • Criminal refugees active in drug trade
    Nearly all the foreigners arrested on narcotics charges by police in Oslo have either been residing illegally in Norway or have had asylum applications rejected. Criminals are also regularly infiltrating asylum centers in Norway, reports newspaper Aftenposten. The recent eviction in the middle o ...
  • Norway tops in poker despite illegality at home
    No other nation can boast as big a pot of poker winnings as Norway on the European Poker Tour (EPT). Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) followed the tour to Barcelona, where tour officials at an opening party announced that Norwegian players have won more than their counterparts from Spain, Finlan ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Pollinate Energy (Bangalore, India)
    One of the major consequences of industrial agriculture is the steady flight of rural populations to urban centers. Economists have widely encouraged this mass movement of people as a sign of a developing economy ’specializing’. We are seeing this trend in all majors cities in Latin ...
  • Obstinate Questionings
    The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in. by George Monbiot But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised…. &#8 ...
  • Get Your Food from a Firehose
    We have been delving into the dirty secret behind our food, which is that it comes from bacteria — primarily, with considerable assistance from a social network of fungi, nematodes, micro-arthropods and soil-dwelling microbes of various descriptions. Most people, asked what plants eat, ans ...
  • Using Gutter Waste as Compost for Your Garden
    One chore that must be done a few times a year is cleaning out the gutters of our homes. Many of us dread this chore and might hire someone to clean the gutters and get rid of the waste without a second-thought; however, the accumulation of leaves and other organic material in gutters can actual ...
  • Living Without a Fridge
    by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne. I’ve been living without a fridge for the last three months — the winter months of Melbourne, Australia. Before you send me to the as ...

Pointman's

  • Know your enemy : Kamikaze politicians, enviro ...
    Before the final and to my mind the most important article in this series, I thought I’d roll up the remaining parties into one piece, since most of them I’ve already covered in some depth in other articles, the appropriate links to which you’ll find at the bottom of this page. ...
  • The great global warming con.
    If you want to con serious amounts of money out of other people, you’ve got to sell them a story and the story you sell, comes in one of two basic flavours. The first one is the traditional basis of most confidence tricks and at the end of the day, it revolves about their greed. &#823 ...
  • Know your enemy : the “green” poli ...
    Any time you make an assessment of a situation or a group of people, you have to be aware that it will have a certain shelf life. Things change, situations evolve and new factors appear as time moves on. Of all the groups I’ve looked at in this series, that consideration applies to politic ...
  • A Berlin story : Eva.
    I first met Eva at the bottom of an escalator, late in the evening of a brutal Berlin winter. She was just standing there at the foot of the thing, trying to judge when to take that first frightening step onto it. There was nobody there but us, and I’d the feeling that a few of &#8230 ...
  • Why would anyone believe a single word coming ...
    One of the climate alarmist’s standard responses to any criticism of the theory of global warming is that unless the person is a climate scientist themselves, the point being made is from a position of ignorance and can therefore be ignored. As with most propaganda designed to silence any ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
    The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...
  • Dream Defenders Florida Take Over Enters Week ...
    Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducted a people’s hearing on racial profiling.  Black and brown college and high school youth took turns giving compelling testimony of being profiled at school ...
  • “This Day, We Use Our Energy for Revolution”
    Reprinted from our friends at Women With A Vision: This past Sunday, WWAV gathered with friends, allies and fellow organizers in a Solidarity Rally for Trayvon Martin. We want to personally thank everyone who came out so that we could raise our voices in unison.  This is the beauty of New ...
  • Open Letter From Curtis Muhammad on Upcoming C ...
    Below we are reposting an open letter from civil rights movement veteran Curtis Muhammad, a founder of People's Hurricane Relief Fund and the International School for Bottom-Up Organizing, among many other projects and initiatives. Dear friends and comrades, We are fast approaching the time fo ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Issues LGBTQ Pol ...
    From a press release from BreakOUT! After organizing for over two years, BreakOUT! members enjoyed a victory today in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) with the issuing of Policy 402, dealing with the treatment of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questio ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Susan Lindauer on whistleblowers, Iraq and 9/1 ...
    In the 2nd hour of today's show I'm honoured to introduce Susan Lindauer, a former CIA asset and back channel negotiator who tried in vain to avert the 2003 Iraq war and was incarcerated under the Patriot Act on spurious charges which were later dropped. Susan is a passionate anti-war activist ...
  • What’s really going on in Egypt?
    In today's show we take a look at the current turmoil in Egypt and attempt to piece together the puzzle of what is really going and who is really in control. We present some evidence that US sponsored groups such as the Endowment for Democracy had been supporting activist groups which had trig ...
  • The internet revolution: what went wrong? - Part 1
    In the 2nd hour of today's show Josh Jackson and I take you on a journey into the history of the internet with aim of discovering where, why and how this amazing tool of empowerment and communication became a tool for the big brother corporatist state. In the first hour I am joined once again ...
  • TNRA’s mission statement
    In today's show we come clean on the core agenda of this radio broadcast. We are here to quicken the mass awakening which is already taking place around the globe. We are here to amplify the dissent which already exists in many peoples' minds but which does not easily find expression. We are h ...
  • The elephant in the room: it’s immigrati ...
    Both sides of Australian politics are once again playing the game of "getting tough on people smugglers", taking turns to sound more aggressive, ruthless and brutal in turning back boats filled with people less fortunate than ourselves. Tony Abbott has declared a "national emergency" and plans ...

Beacon

  • Whales Get Sunburns, Too
    Sperm whales can develop sunburn-like blisters when swimming near the surface. (Photo: Paul Richards)   If you head to the beach without sunscreen, you’ll probably return home with a scarlet, painful sunburn. That’s because you’ve exposed your skin to several hours of UV rays, which dam ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 27 ...
    A sea anemone in Stonewall Bank.   August 27, 2013 Stonewall Bank Today was the final day of our Pacific research expedition off the Oregon coast. We left Newport before daybreak bound for Stonewall Bank, more than 15 miles west. The seas calmed overnight and we had perfect conditi ...
  • Top 10 Whale Shark Facts
    Magnificent, majestic, massive: Meet the whale shark l Photo: Shiyam ElkCloner Today is International Whale Shark Day, so what better time to celebrate these magnificent creatures? Here are 10 facts to dazzle your friends with: 1. We know you’re wondering: whale shark – whale, or shark? Th ...
  • Second-Biggest Shark-Catching Country in World ...
    This 2010 map shows the top 20 countries annual shark catch worldwide. India, ranking #2, has moved to ban shark finning throughout the country and its waters. l Image: FAO Fisheries Department This news is big, and we are absolutely thrilled to share it with you – India has moved to outlaw t ...
  • Notes from the Pacific Expedition -- August 26 ...
    Expedition crew members work to deploy the ROV in the waters of Heceta Bank August 26, 2013 Heceta Bank We didn’t know what we might find in the Heceta Bank region off the central Oregon coast.  It is one of the largest reef complexes off the Pacific Northwest coast, once nominated to b ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Lowering Our Standards
    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle ...
  • EI, Self-Insurance or Three-Card Monte?
    Monte Solberg, the former Conservative cabinet minister responsible for Employment Insurance, proposed to eliminate the program in a recent Sun Media column: An alternative would be to self-insure. Employee and employer premiums would accumulate in an account in each worker’s name. Including int ...
  • $6,000 revenue shortfall per annum for workers
    We are told that wealth must first be created before it can be redistributed. Put like that, it sounds like a truism. We can still ask whether the wealth created is indeed redistributed in the end. That’s the question to which IRIS wanted to find an answer in its latest notice. IRIS compared the ...
  • GDP: Consumers to the Rescue
    Following positive GDP numbers in April and May, Statistics Canada reported today that a sharp drop in June dragged Canada’s economic growth to a mediocre pace of 0.4% for the second quarter. June’s declines in manufacturing and resource extraction did further damage to industries that had decli ...
  • P3 or No Federal Funding: A Third Option for R ...
    The Queen City’s water debate has boiled over since I last blogged about it. City Council decided to build a new wastewater-treatment facility as a public-private partnership (P3), but a group of concerned citizens gathered 24,000 signatures to force a referendum on whether to “publicly finance, ...

ReDress

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • 5 Years After Being Covered With Water, Chines ...
    “It’s been a long time since the people who lived in rural Xuanping saw their little town, which was flooded by a powerful earthquake in 2008. But thanks to a steep drop in water levels, parts of their village in China’s Sichuan Province are visible again, from homes and busine ...
  • German Sun Beats Swiss Water
    “The energy source that covers 55 percent of the country’s energy supply faces drastically reduced profitability, as electricity prices have sunk 20 percent again compared to the preceding year. In the light of this market environment, the biggest Swiss energy producers Alpiq, Axpo, BKW an ...
  • The Struggle Over Riverbed Mining in India
    “One specific use of  rivers landmasses has increased manifold in India over the last few decades. Mining of sand, gravel, stones and boulders from riverbeds and riverbanks across the country has seen an unprecedented rise. Each day truckloads of sand and gravel are extracted for a variety ...
  • Where Did the Water Go? Busting 5 Myths About ...
    “The extreme low levels earlier this year left many asking, “Where did the water go?” The answer is that it simply evaporated. The surface of the Great Lakes acts like an enormous evaporating pan under the right conditions. As explained in a previous post, the lack of ice cover in 2011-12 ...
  • California water wars: Big fish eat little fish
    “Californians may get to vote on yet another massive, multi-billion dollar water bond in 2014, and what it will pay for is still being put through the Sacramento sausage grinder. But remarks earlier this month at a “water summit” in Fresno may show some of the handwriting on the wall. Most ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • What should “W” Bush punishment be ...
    …If as advocated by the author of this letter to the editor … Syria’s President deserves punishment … what does it say about the acts of our President “W” Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and their lies used to goad us into war against the sovereign nation of Iraq … which played no part in America’s false f ...
  • while this article offers absolutely NO substa ...
    …while this article offers absolutely NO substantive proof … I still want to believe … shows my still lingering resentment about Saudi Prince Bandar “Bush”…   Saudi Prince Bandar behind chemical attack in Syria: Report 09-01-2013  •  Press TV   …  The article co-authored ...
  • SCREWED OVER … BUT DO WE REALLY CARE…?
    …SCREWED OVER … BUT DO WE REALLY CARE…? … Groups in America That Are the Most Screwed-Over by Predatory Capitalism … Are political and corporate leaders even remotely aware of the conditions of society beneath the wealthiest 10% or so…?   We live in a society that allows one man to make $15 ...
  • Whether intended or not
    …Whether intended or not … this is the truth we really don’t have “smoking gun” we just have opinion and for that America’s military industrial corporate congressional cabal want to go to WAR and kill… State Department Admits It Doesn’t Know Who Ordered Syria’s Chemical Strike Read t ...
  • Something truly worthy of contemplating…
    …Something truly worthy of contemplating… As reported to … NaturalNews readers, In an era when every political leader seems to think change is only accomplished with bullets and bombs, I say the real revolution happening today is consciousness. Through the success of the spreading of this simple ...

Popular Technology

  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...
  • Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share ...
  • Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it is revealed their lack of humanity for the death of a political adversary. In a forum thread titled, "Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43" f ...
  • Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech
    "The impact of that ban on PopTech was to silence him." - Skeptical Science In March of 2012, the same computer illiterates at Skeptical Science who do not know how to use Google Scholar had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these I am mentioned in at least 65 discussion ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Palm oil now biggest cause of deforestation in ...
    Conversion of forests for palm oil production now appears to be the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, accounting for roughly a quarter of forest loss between 2009 and 2011, asserts a new Greenpeace report that accuses the sector's main certification standard of failing to stop ...
  • Bad feedback: ocean acidification to worsen gl ...
    As if ocean acidification and climate change weren't troubling enough (both of which are caused by still-rising carbon emissions), new research published in Nature finds that ocean acidification will eventually exacerbate global warming, further raising the Earth's temperature.
  • Ground zero for endangered species: new progra ...
    Organizations within the international conservation community are joining forces to minimize impending extinctions in Southeast Asia, where habitat loss, trade and hunting have contributed to a dramatic decline in wildlife. The coalition is aptly named ASAP, or the Asian Species Action Partnership.
  • Mining in Indonesia taking a heavy social, env ...
    In a patch of rainforest in northern Sumatra, a 28-year-old in jeans and tall rubber boots snubs out his cigarette and pulls a headlamp over his short black hair. Standing under a tarp, he flicks the light on and leans over the entrance of a narrow shaft lined with wooden planks that he and othe ...
  • Scientists discover teddy bear-like mammal hid ...
    While the olinguito looks like a wild, tree-climbing teddy bear with a cat's tail, it's actually the world's newest mammalian carnivore. The remarkable discovery—the first mammal carnivore uncovered in the Western Hemisphere since the 1970s—was found in the lush cloud forests of the ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Axemen a cut above in manly stakes
    Chopping wood has always been seen as one of the more "manly"' endeavours, but now researchers may be able to prove it.University of California scientists have discovered the testosterone levels of men spike when chopping wood -...
  • Giant squid filmed in own habitat
    A deep-sea search for giant squid has captured the world's first video footage of the mysterious creature in its habitat. The expedition that was a decade in the making involved two New Zealanders.Auckland Museum's collection manager,...
  • Christopher Loeak: Low lying atolls appeal to ...
    In the Pacific, we have always looked to Australia and New Zealand as our partners. On climate change, we need them to be leaders.There is no disputing the significant threat posed by climate change to our Pacific region. This month's...
  • CBD air given a health check
    Scientists are keen to discover what effect the hustle and bustle of downtown Auckland has on those who walk its streets every day.A two-week survey, now under way, will eventually reveal how traffic affects sound and air quality...
  • Tremors on path down country, say scientists
    A sequence of quakes rattling the centre of the country appears to be shifting down the South Island and away from Wellington.But those in the capital are expected to feel aftershocks for some time yet and there is still a reasonable...

The Bovine

  • Should you be able to buy food directly from f ...
    From David E. Gumpert on Waking Times.com “This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly. For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the … Continue reading →
  • Bayer sues European governments over ban on pe ...
    From Sum of Us: “Bayer has just sued the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban only months ago — and we … Continue reading →
  • Violent behaviour a result of poor diet?
    From Kimberly Hartke at the Weston A. Price Foundation: WASHINGTON, DC, August 30, 2013– GlobeNewswire — Deficiencies of vitamins A, D, K, B1, B3, B6, B12 and folate, and of minerals iodine, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, chromium and manganese can … Continue reading →
  • State interference in parenting choices?
    A word to the wise from Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist: “Warning to all parents who make healthy homemade baby formula for their children instead of feeding them toxic, GMO laced commercial formula. DON’T tell a conventionally minded doctor about … Continue reading →
  • Aajonus Vonderplanitz, raw milk and food right ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on The Complete Patient blog: “Food rights activist Aajonus Vonderplanitz died in Thailand yesterday, and the circumstances of his demise reflect the way he lived–colorful and shrouded in mystery and controversy. The 66-year-old nutritionist was, in … Con ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Future of Education is At Hand: Online, Accred ...
    I have long been in the camp that the price of education is so expensive as to make college a poor choice for many who attend, and a downright bad choice for those who go heavily in debt for degrees in little demand. The entire education system is and has been for some time unsustainable. T ...
  • Exploring the Impossible: India Seeks to Expa ...
    The desperate act of the day comes from Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid who says India Looking to Expand Rupee-Payment System. India is exploring possibilities of a rupee-based trade-payment mechanism with several countries, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said Tuesday, a move that may help ...
  • DeLong-in-Wonderland
    Preposterous economic proposals from economists living in academic wonderland are the norm. For example: Please consider the following statements by Brad DeLong, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, from his post Central Banking: Banking Camp vs. Macroeconom ...
  • India Manufacturing PMI Contracts for First Ti ...
    A weak manufacturing recovery of sorts is underway in Europe. How long it lasts remains in question, with France not participating in the recovery. The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® shows Final Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at 26-month high of 51.4 in August (July: 50.3). Co ...
  • India in Serious Trouble (and Gold at the Hear ...
    Last week India's trade minister, Anand Sharma, came out with a laughable suggestion: RBI should consider monetizing gold. India’s central bank should look into the possibility of monetizing gold holdings, trade minister Anand Sharma said on Thursday, in the latest proposal aimed at combating ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener Report- Bandar Bush & the Syrian ...
    It has long been acknowledged that the Saudis have been one of the key players funding, arming, training and smuggling terrorists into Syria during the conflict. But the Saudi connection to the fighting in Syria took on a new dimension in the wake of last month’s chemical attack on Ghouta. ...
  • Obama Has Decided That It Is Safer To Buy Cong ...
    No one should expect the US Congress to vote on the basis of the evidence While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding h ...
  • America’s Intelligence Budget Black Hole
    CIA: The President’s Pretorian Guard & Private Army On August 29, the Washington Post headlined “US spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary,” saying: Post-9/11, US spy agencies “built an intelligence-gather ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent with Guillermo Jimene ...
    The National Security State, Predictive Programming & 7/7 On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by author of the new book, Secrets, Spies and 7/7, Mr. Tom Secker. Guillermo and Tom discuss the book, the motivation for pursuing this area of research, and the lastin ...
  • Corbett Video Report: Who Is Really Behind the ...
    Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad’s government? Given that the pretext for attacking Syria is falling apart before the public’s eyes, why is the US preparing to wage war on that country? Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad’s government? W ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

gCaptain

  • Ocean Rig Orders Ninth Drillship from Samsung ...
    International deepwater drilling contractor Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG) on Tuesday announced that it has signed a contract to construct a ninth ultra deepwater drillship at Samsung Heavy Industries for approximately $600 million.
  • U.S. Could Approve Further LNG Exports Each Ye ...
    Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. approval each year of 1.5 billion to 2 billion cubic feet a day of liquefied natural gas export capacity would be “palatable” for consumers, according [...]
  • U.S. Navy EOD Unit Recovers Live Ordnance from ...
    SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) — The U.S. Navy and Australian Defense Force (ADF) successfully recovered and disposed of the live ordnance emergency-jettisoned by two AV-8B Harrier aircraft on July 16 [...]
  • “K” Line Orders Four Wide-Beam Car Carriers
    Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (“K” Line) announced today a signed agreement to build four next-generation car carriers at Japanese yards Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co. Ltd and Japan Marine United Corporation. [...]
  • Hyundai Mipo Shares Rise on $103 Million Conta ...
    Hyundai Mipo Dockyard announced today they have been awarded a 113,200,000,000 KRW (USD $103 million) newbuild order for new containerships from an undisclosed European ship owner. The three vessels are [...]

Press TV

  • 50 killed in fresh Iraq violence
    At least 50 people have been killed in yet another bloody day in Iraq as a fresh wave of bomb explosions and shooting incidents hits the country.
  • US House Speaker backs Syria attack
    House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner supports Obama's plan for a military action in Syria over allegations that the Government of President Bashar al-Asad has used chemical weapons against its armed opponents. Damascus rejects the claims as unfounded.
  • WikiLeaks files complaint in Sweden
    The 186-page affidavit claims America stole evidence about “a war crime perpetrated by US forces in Afghanistan.”
  • UK PM to seek robust response to Syria
    British Prime Minister David Cameron will use the G20 in Saint Petersburg this week to persuade Russia to take a tougher stance as far as the conflict in Syria is concerned, his spokesman said.
  • Israel population exceeds 8 million
    The population of Israel has grown by 1.8 percent over the past Jewish year to stand at 8.081 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics says.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • An Evening With the Bus
  • Viewing Videos in Blackboard and Digication Us ...
    Now that the fall semester has begun, some students have reported issues accessing content in their Blackboard course site and have reached out to the Help Desk to ask which browser is best for use with Blackboard. Firefox is SPS’s preferred browser; however, the most recent release of Fir ...
  • Welcome Back, CUNY SPS!
    Welcome back students! Remember, classes will be held in our new space at 119 W. 31st Street, but administrative offices will remain at 101 W. 31st Street until later this fall. Here’s a listing of current office locations and contact information.  Enjoy the semester!
  • #FindYourReason
  • Combat censorship with ‘PirateBrowser’
    The Pirate Bay recently celebrated their 10th birthday this past Saturday by announcing a new gift for internet users — PirateBrowser: “a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible.” screenshot via th ...

Dissident Voice

  • UK Parliament Votes No
    There has been an epidemic of outrage in the United Kingdom over the last few days, most of it coming from the great and not so good.  The original cause was the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.  With no hard evidence as to what the attack involved and who was actually responsible, our ...
  • He May Be Bad, But Is He Mad?
    The title (referring to Assad) is the question George Galloway MP asked in the House of Commons when he shredded Prime Minister David Cameron.  In a first for a modern Prime Minister on an issue of military intervention, Cameron lost the vote, and therefore the British will not be participating ...
  • Workers Consumed by Consumerism
    Why is there so much attention paid to people as consumers, but so little to people as workers? Is it because the mere mention of our rights as workers brings up all kinds of uncomfortable truths that threaten the very ideological foundations of the current economic system? The vast majority of ...
  • US Diabolical Design for Syria
    Politically entrenched in a self-made predicament, US President Barack Obama is going through tough times these days regarding Syria. Those whom he thought would unconditionally support him in launching an invasion of Syria, ridding the West of Bashar al-Assad, and installing a West-friendly pup ...
  • The Disease of Detention
    Police states quaffing the blood of victims have an excuse: they wish to oppress in order to justify the status quo, keeping the fires burning, their subjects scared.  They deceive because they know that truth is another country.  States that possess some constitutional worth, those that front a ...

Nick Turse

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Newswise

  • Massive Storm Pulls Water and Ammonia Ices Fro ...
    Once every 30 years or so, or roughly one Saturnian year, a monster storm rips across the northern hemisphere of the ringed planet. In 2010, the most recent and only the sixth giant storm on Saturn observed by humans began stirring. It quickly grew to superstorm proportions, reaching 15,000 ...
  • Effect of Iron Supplementation Among Children ...
    Children in a malaria-endemic community in Ghana who received a micronutrient powder with iron did not have an increased incidence of malaria, according to a study in the September 4 issue of JAMA. Previous research has suggested that iron supplementation for children with iron deficiency in mal ...
  • Single Combination Pill Provides Benefit to Pa ...
    In a randomized trial that included about 2,000 patients with or at high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), use of a fixed-dose combination medication for blood pressure, cholesterol, and platelet control compared to usual care resulted in significantly improved medication adherence after 15 ...
  • Multinational Study Shows Need For Substantial ...
    In a study that included more than 140,000 participants from17 countries of varying income levels, researchers found a large gap between both detection and control of hypertension across all countries studied, with just over half of participants with hypertension aware of their diagnosis, and ab ...
  • Hepatitis B Immunization Program in Taiwan Ass ...
    The researchers found that from 1977-1980 to 2001-2004, the age- and sex-adjusted rate ratios for individuals 5 to 29 years of age decreased by more than 90 percent for CLD and HCC mortality and by more than 80 percent for HCC incidence, which were higher than the previously reported reduction ( ...

Metanoia

Jae's News

  • Chris Hedges: The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA
    I and my fellow plaintiffs have begun the 3rd and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilitie Submitted by Judy C. to US Politics &amp ...
  • Leaderless party endures humiliating week
    Republicans' flailing spectacle during the March on Washington anniversary displayed a party with no direction Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The conservative crackup: How the Republican P ...
    In a recent article, I argued that the Republican Party has been captured by a faction whose political psychology makes it highly intransigent and uninterested in compromise. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Bryan Stevenson Optimistic About Juvenile Just ...
    The man who took the fight against life without parole sentences for juveniles to the U.S. Supreme Court said he is optimistic about juvenile justice trends, but said there is much work to do in a few areas, most especially around housing youth in adult.. Submitted by Tonya M. to US Politics &am ...
  • I did not join for this: US military men speak ...
    Many US servicemen are against the looming strike on Syria, Republican Congressman Justin Amash said on Twitter, in an attempt to counter the idea that the country might be overwhelmingly in favor of military action. Submitted by Ray C. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Survivors of Peru’s Armed Conflict Still Waiting
    Venisia Ávalos, a 65-year-old indigenous woman from Peru’s highlands region of Ayacucho, looks for her son’s name among a labyrinth formed by thousands of small grey stones. Each one of the fist-sized stones carries the name of a victim of the country’s armed conflict between government forces a ...
  • Migrant Rights Defenders in Mexico Face Growin ...
    “No one can stop me from working for migrants’ rights, because no one is above my own conscience,” said Mexican Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde. Solalinde, one of the most dauntless activists for the rights of undocumented Central American migrants who cross Mexico en route ...
  • Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
    When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.’s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world’s most critical finite resources. Current and past ...
  • BOOKS: ‘Delusion’ Challenges U.S. ...
    A Dangerous Delusion is the work of one of Britain’s most brilliant political commentators, Peter Oborne, and an Irish physicist, David Morrison, who has written powerfully about the misleading of British public and parliamentary opinion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War. This book will i ...
  • Cuba’s Stray Dogs Have Their Champions
    The stray cat’s fur was burned and its eyes were hanging from its sockets when pensioner Neida González found it on a street in the Cuban capital. The cat, which she named Grenlito, now lives with her eight other pets. “I’ve lost count of all the animals I’ve saved. I also feed 16 cats that [&#8 ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran's chemical weapon survivors show twin hor ...
    Summary: Ahmad, a survivor of chemical warfare during the Iran–Iraq war of 1980-88, has already had more than 50 operations on his eyes. He uses multiple inhalers every day to alleviate the pain from his lungs, 60% of which were burned, and he takes a multitude of pills just to stay alive. H ...
  • Obama, Syria, and Iran: The (Lonely and Declin ...
    Summary: As the Obama administration proceeds with its tragi-comic preparations for military strikes against Syria, with no domestic or international legitimacy, it is losing allies and partners at an impressively rapid pace—faster than even the George W. Bush administration was able to achie ...
  • In Rush to Strike Syria, US Tried to Derail UN ...
    Summary: Washington - After initially insisting that Syria give United Nations investigators unimpeded access to the site of an alleged nerve gas attack, the administration of President Barack Obama reversed its position on Sunday and tried unsuccessfully to get the U.N. to call off its inves ...
  • Emergency protest: No attack on Syria
    Summary: London: Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28th August Britain, France and the US are committing to another disastrous military intervention. Apart from the inevitable casualties, any attack on Syria can only inflame an already disastrous civil war and would risk pulling in regional ...
  • CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Ga ...
    Summary: chemical bombing victimsThe U.S. government may be considering military action in response to chemical strikes near Damascus. But a generation ago, America's military and intelligence communities knew about and did nothing to stop a series of nerve gas attacks far more devastating th ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Extraterrestrial Link to Global Climate Shift ...
      For the first time, researchers have discovered conclusive evidence linking an extraterrestrial impact with a dramatic global climate shift. The impact occurred about 12,900 years ago, at the beginning of the Younger Dryas period, and marks an abrupt global change to a colder, dry ...
  • New 'Dark Energy' Mission --The World's Most P ...
        Tonight, and for hundreds of nights over the next five years, a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe will use the world's most powerful digital camera to try to find out why the expansion of the universe is speeding up, instead of slowing down due to gravity, ...
  • The Big Bang Afterglow --New Mysteries Reveale ...
                  This past spring, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from the Big Bang – was released by the ESO revealing the existence of features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe. Whe ...
  • Image of the Day: NASA Reveals Massive 460-Mil ...
               Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon under a mile of Greenland ice. Using radar data from NASA's Operation IceBridge, scientists found the canyon runs from near the center of the island northward to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier. The canyon has the ch ...
  • Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole Casts a Sh ...
        The event horizon of Sgr A** casts a shadow against the glowing matter surrounding the black hole. New NASA Chandra X Ray Observatory research could aid efforts using radio telescopes to observe and understand the shadow. It also will be useful for understanding the effect orbit ...

Natural News

  • 'Nursery water' sold at Wal-Mart found to cont ...
    A water product sold at Wal-Mart and Walgreens and intended to be used to make infant formula has been found to contain a chemical the international media describes as the same "chemical weapon" involved in the political crisis with Syria. This "chemical weapon" is intentionally...
  • Bombshell: Syria's 'chemical weapons' turn out ...
    Natural News can now reveal that the Syria chemical weapons narrative being pushed by the White House is an outlandish hoax. To understand why, you have to start with the story published in The Independent entitled Revealed: Government let British company export nerve...
  • High intake of meat and fat linked to ovarian ...
    Research continues to show that a diet high in meat and fat can dramatically increase a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, the top killer among gynecologic cancers. Although ovarian cancer is relatively rare - in the United States, women have less than a 2...
  • Revealed: NSA employees used government survei ...
    In the intelligence world, there are a number of acronyms describing the kind of intel that spy agencies gather. For example, there is "ELINT" - electronic intelligence - and "HUMINT" - human intelligence. Now, some analysts at the National Security Agency h ...
  • Perceived neighborhood safety linked to overwe ...
    Adolescent overweight is a major public health concern because of the immediate and long-term health risks. Many overweight adolescents suffer from hypertension, Type II diabetes, and asthma. As they grow into adulthood, many develop coronary heart disease, cardiovascular...

Threat Level

  • Russia Issues International Travel Advisory to ...
    For roughly two decades Russia has been something of a safe haven for professional spammers, hackers, phishers and fraudsters hitting the U.S with cyber scams. Now the Russian government has some advice for its cyber criminal class, and any other ...     
  • California Abruptly Drops Plan to Implant RFID ...
    Following complaints from privacy groups, California lawmakers on Friday suspended legislation to embed radio-frequency identification chips, or RFIDs, in its driver's licenses and state identification cards.     
  • Google, Microsoft Press Lawsuits for Right to ...
    Perennial competitors in the search realm, Google and Microsoft have decided to lay aside their swords and differences briefly to join forces in suing the government to allow them to release surveillance request statistics, the companies announced today.     
  • New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA ...
    The latest published leak from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lays bare details of the U.S. government's highly classified 2013 intelligence budget, and makes the first reference in any of the Snowden documents to a "groundbreaking" U.S. encryption-breaking effort targeted squarely ...  & ...
  • The Coming Standoff Between Tech Companies and ...
    Given X-Keyscore was a program primarily designed to intercept unencrypted internet traffic, you could be forgiven for interpreting Facebook's post as a middle finger pointed in NSA's direction. This heralds a looming standoff between technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and ...  &nbs ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Congress Would OK Obama Strikes Against Iran, ...
    As Congress debates authorizing U.S. military strikes against Syria, it's worth remembering that President Obama has painted himself into a box with not one, but two red lines. After all, Obama didn't just casually announce that "a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical we ...
  • Health Insurance "Coverage Gap" Coming to a Re ...
    For the denizens of red state America, the final launch of the Affordable Care Act is fast becoming a Shakespearean tragedy of epic proportions. Even as the Defund Obamacare crowd continues its tale told by an idiot, Republicans are beginning to realize that Obamacare by any other name smells m ...
  • Missouri Tries to Nullify Federal Gun and Heal ...
    If you ever wondered what a 21st century nullification crisis would look like, look no further than Missouri. One hundred and forty eight years after the end of the Civil War, the New York Times reports, "the Republican-controlled Missouri legislature is expected to enact a statute next month n ...
  • Obamacare Defunders Want to Pocket Obamacare Funds
    The bad news keeps coming for the Republicans promising to shut down the federal government to prevent funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). First, former South Carolina Senator turned Heritage Foundation President Jim Demint followed in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney by t ...
  • Speaker Boehner, Go F@*k Yourself
    During the tense final days leading up to the deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had some sharp words for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Just steps outside the Oval Office, Boehner told Reid, "Go f@*k yourself." In the Speaker's defense, he ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
    Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
  • “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
    An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
  • Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
    With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
  • Headlines for November 28, 2012
    Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
  • Palestine Activism in the UK
    Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Over 100 Dogs Seized From Breeder
    The Montreal SPCA and Quebec government seized over 100 dogs and puppies from a commercial breeding facility. These establishments are also sometimes called puppy mills. An e-mail from Humane Society International said, “The dogs and puppies were housed in barren, metal cages and denied th ...
  • 727-Pound Alligator Killed in Mississippi
    Dustin Bockman caught and killed a very large alligator over the weekend with some friends. He shot the thirteen foot creature with a bow and arrow, in Mississippi’s first statewide official alligator hunt. It was a record-setting catch, but this seems to be sort of a sad accomplishment, b ...
  • Declining And Misused Federal Fire Dollars: Th ...
    “Monster” fire consumes almost 10% of Yosemite National Park, August-September 2013 (Photo: U.S. Forest Service) Annual costs of fighting wildfires have grown exponentially over the past decade. They now surpass the value of resources reclaimed. The Rim Fire burning in and near Yosem ...
  • On The Precipice Of Change
    By Tom Steyer According to a fascinating poll that came out last week, 13% of Americans claim that they would commit some form of non-violent civil disobedience to get action on climate change. To me, this is a dramatic number. Americans are not willing to put up with denial any longer. Opinions ...
  • World’s Hairiest Cat
    A cat named Colonel Meow has won a Guinness Book of World Records award for longest cat furWorld’s Hairiest Cat was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free), follow us on ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

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Care 2

  • A Heart-Felt Tribute to Our Forest Fire Fighte ...
    Thank a firefighter today. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Science Can Never Rest in the War Against Emer ...
    The war on emerging pathogens isnt like any others. The war on drugs might well end with a new approach. The war on terrorism might eventually wind down. But the war on emerging pathogens is different. It will never end. Submitted by Carrie B. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina | THE DOG SHELTER IN BI ...
    There is no vet, and no electricity. Dogs locked in cages have no water or food. There are corpses of dogs and puppies inside and outside the shelter. Cannibalism has also occurred among dogs. Outside the pens, 300 starving dogs roam freely. Submitted by desanka s. to Animals  |  &nbs ...
  • ACTION NEEDED Saving Trooper and Friends
    These animals do not deserve to die because someone went against the law and had the heart to save their lives and not let them die in agony. These animals are living in outstanding environments, are vaccinated and are very well taken care Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Animals  |  &nb ...
  • Orangutan Drinking Water From Bottle : Video C ...
    Love it Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The SARIN Psyops Story–A US/UK Contrivance
    It is highly unlikely that the Syrian Government authorized and ordered a chemical attack using the nerve agent Sarin against rebel strongholds in Damascus on the 21st of August. It appears that this incident was carried out, at a minimum, with the complicity of the United States and Great Brita ...
  • The WMD Bamboozle
    Here we go again. A President uses the specter of WMD aka WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION to frighten the public and justify military action. In 2003 it was Iraq. The next victim, Syria. But the definition of WMD is slippery. It can mean anything we want it to mean. Two small bombs along the route [...]
  • Syria and the Iran Canard
    George W. Bush may no longer be in the seat of power, but the same obsession with Iran persists and Barack Obama, despite his undeserved Nobel Peace Prize, has picked up the torch and is pressing forward with it trying to gin up a new war with Iran. Iran remains a raw, festering scab on [...]
  • Barack Obama Overrules Barack Obama
    What a weird, bizarre little man? Oh sure, Barack is tall. But when it comes to political stature and leadership, he reveals himself to be the tiniest of Lilliputians. If this were a Monty Python skit, we would be rolling on the floor, gasping for breaths because of the hilarity of the moment. P ...
  • The World Holds Weakling Barack Obama in Contempt
    The Obama meltdown over Syria–you know, empty tough talk and the failure to achieve any of the actual diplomatic achievements of George W. Bush–will soon eclipse any memory of the miserable failure that was Jimmy Carter. At least Carter tried to act in the country’s best intere ...

Futurismic

  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Bezos "saves" Washington Post as Feinstein et ...
    The root of the latest story: Sen. Feinstein During 'Shield' Law Debate: 'Real' Journalists Draw Salaries | Techdirt - Aug 8 2013 EFF: Why Sen. Feinstein Is Wrong About Who’s a “Real Reporter” | Electronic Frontier Foundation - Aug 9 2013 Great summary of the issue: Media Lens - All Journalism I ...
  • Urgent letter from San Quentin hunger striker ...
    Hunger strikes are challenging the prison-industrial complex and this particular letter posted hours ago gave me chills. Via a colleague: "Urgent. From a penpal at San Quentin. The main line is (415) 454-1460." _____ I hope this letter finds you doing well. This is just a small note to let you k ...
  • Resistance to Illegal Minnesota Vikings Stadiu ...
    With a little luck the Vikings Stadium could be forced to a vote in Minneapolis this November. A petition for writ of mandamus with the District Court in Hennepin County initiated by Doug Mann and supported by several activists asks the court to consider if indeed the way the stadium was "legali ...
  • Alcohol comes to Pine Ridge reservation after ...
    It is disappointing to hear that Pine Ridge Reservation voted to resume selling alcohol after so many had fought against it - and this is no doubt pleasant news for the people that profit from the war on drugs, like alcohol companies. I also just saw ads about four new bars opening at Mystic Lak ...
  • University of Minnesota to test new Light Rail ...
    This is sort of cool. Went out to U students just recently. I am hoping the Green Line is activated ASAP!! Still moar cables to install in downtown St Paul dangit. On with the show! From: Vice President Pam Wheelock Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM Good aftern ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Party It Up On Labor Day—Because Your Summer F ...
    For 120 years, Labor Day has been the red-headed stepchild of holidays. As glamorous as the guy with a shovel following a mule in a parade. Hey, it’s Labor Day, everybody. Woo- hoo. Okay, we’re partying now. Throw your arms in the air and wave them like you just don’t care. Blow up some ballo ...
  • 8 Juicy Allegations From the New Bachmann “Tel ...
    “She fired a staffer with seven children, the eighth on the way, on Christmas Eve” A new book co-written by a former senior staffer on Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign alleges that the conservative congresswoman is a fake Christian diva who fires pregnant staffers on Christmas Eve an ...
  • Feds Say They Will Go Easy on Banks Doing Busi ...
    Another good piece of news from the Justice Department on the drug war. During the groundbreaking phone call on Thursday, August 29 in which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of Colorado and Washington the federal government would not attempt to intercept regulated legal mar ...
  • 8 Despicable Right-Wing Statements From This L ...
    The extreme right produced a host of offensive, racist and wildly inaccurate statements this week. 1. Penn. Gov. Corbett: Gays are like children. Neither should be able to marry.When he isn’t busy defunding public schools, Pennsylvania’s oh-so-enlightened Republican governor Tom Corbett is fig ...
  • Why Syria Intervention Plan Is Being Pushed by ...
    Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow geopolitical competition to control Mideast oil, gas pipelines On 21 August, hundreds - perhaps over a thousand - people were killed in a chemical weapon attack in Ghouta, Damascus, prompting the US, UK, Israel and France to raise the spect ...

Threat Level

  • Russia Issues International Travel Advisory to ...
    For roughly two decades Russia has been something of a safe haven for professional spammers, hackers, phishers and fraudsters hitting the U.S with cyber scams. Now the Russian government has some advice for its cyber criminal class, and any other ...     
  • California Abruptly Drops Plan to Implant RFID ...
    Following complaints from privacy groups, California lawmakers on Friday suspended legislation to embed radio-frequency identification chips, or RFIDs, in its driver's licenses and state identification cards.     
  • Google, Microsoft Press Lawsuits for Right to ...
    Perennial competitors in the search realm, Google and Microsoft have decided to lay aside their swords and differences briefly to join forces in suing the government to allow them to release surveillance request statistics, the companies announced today.     
  • New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA ...
    The latest published leak from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lays bare details of the U.S. government's highly classified 2013 intelligence budget, and makes the first reference in any of the Snowden documents to a "groundbreaking" U.S. encryption-breaking effort targeted squarely ...  & ...
  • The Coming Standoff Between Tech Companies and ...
    Given X-Keyscore was a program primarily designed to intercept unencrypted internet traffic, you could be forgiven for interpreting Facebook's post as a middle finger pointed in NSA's direction. This heralds a looming standoff between technology companies like Apple, Facebook, and ...  &nbs ...

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • College Football – Nothing to do with Food Saf ...
    Glenn Terrell Jr., former WSU President died on Friday.  Although later in life, he and I became friends, and had a grudging admiration for each other, during my college years,... Continue Reading
  • When is a recall not a recall – Chobani?
    A few days ago I got this tweet: Went to @gelsonsmarkets tonight and they had sign up saying some flavors of @Chobani were recalled. What gives? I also got this... Continue Reading
  • Salmonella Spice, both Scary and Deadly
    Not to be confused with the Spice Girls. New York Times writer Gardiner Harris wrote last week about the risks of Salmonella in imported spices.  According to Gardiner: The United... Continue Reading
  • Burma Superstar Restaurant Inspection Reports
    Last Report was 90 – Several earlier reports show risky practices. 14-Feb-2013       Inspection Type: Routine           Score: 90 Violation Type Risk Category Other low risk violation Low... Continue Reading
  • Burma Superstar Restaurant Shuttered Due to 14 ...
    Joe Vazquez, @joenewsman, San Francisco Journalist at CBS5 TV, tweeted that 1 of 14 developed hemolytic uremic syndrome. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the San Francisco’s Department of Public... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Watch Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "All in With Chri ...
    Watch MSNBC's Chris Hayes talk about the liberal interventionist argument for military action in Syria, with Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!," former Congressman Tom Perriello, and Eli Lake, senior national security correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Part 1: The Liberal C ...
  • Broadcaster David Frost, 74, Dies; Watch Ron H ...
    British broadcasting legend David Frost has died at the age of 74. In 1977 he conducted a series of historic interviews with former president Richard Nixon who had resigned three years earlier. For the first time Nixon apologized for the bugging of Democratic rivals at Washington's Watergate bu ...
  • Nuclear's Demise, From Fukushima to Vermont
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Welcome to the nuclear renaissance. Entergy Corp., one of the largest nuclear-power producers in the United States, issued a surprise press release Tuesday, saying it plans "to close and decommission its Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, ...
  • Pt 2: 50 Years After March on Washington, Litt ...
    As part of today's national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we continue our discussion with Associate Producer Richard Kaplan of the rarely seen Oscar-nominated documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, King: A Filmed Record.. ...
  • After Decades of Protests, Vermont Yankee Nucl ...
    Entergy announced plans to day to close and decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon, Vermont, by the end of 2014. The site has been the target of protests for decades. In 2010, the Vermont Senate voted against a measure that would have authorized a state board to grant V ...

Solari

  • September: Crunch Time Cometh!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Take a moment to review some of the decision points coming up this month.  We are watching a scramble for market share and cash flows. Commodities still down. Emerging markets falling. Will the North American and European stock markets correct? After all, September has ...
  • Syria, Emerging Market Turmoil Put U.S. in G20 ...
    Photo Credit: Reuters/Hamid Khatib By Douglas Busvine The Group of 20 cut its teeth in the global financial crisis of 2009, achieving unprecedented cooperation between developed and emerging nations to stave off economic collapse which has not been matched since. Four years on, shifts of power ...
  • Full Show: America’s Gilded Capital
    By Moyers and Company Mark Leibovich covers Washington, D.C., as chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. In his new book, This Town, he writes about the city’s bipartisan lust for power, cash and notoriety. It’s the story of how Washington became an occupied city; its hold ...
  • Happy Labor Day!
    [click on the image for a larger version] From 1935: In honor of Labor Day, here’s some hard work. The caption: “Veterans from CCC camp at Winterset, Iowa, are at work sodding a waterway to be used to divert water from a gully down the middle of a field near Truro.” Related [...]
  • Book Review: Sauder on Underground Facilities
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Dr. Richard Sauder is an investigative researcher who has amassed a significant amount of information about the extensive underground facilities funded and operated through the US black budget. After many years, a steady flow of whistleblowers, leakers and retired mili ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • Register Now for AIA San Francisco’s 2013 Arch ...
    Calling all San Francisco Bay Area architecture fans! We're excited to announce the launch of one of our favorite annual events - the AIA SF Architecture and the City Festival! We're looking forward to an exciting month packed with films, exhibitions, and     
  • Zundert’s Bloemencorso Flower Parade Wows Visi ...
    The tiny town of Zundert is most famously known as the birthplace of master painted Vincent Van Gogh, and the Bloemencorso parade honors his artistic spirit. With a population of just 20,000, the town bursts with activity for the flower parade each year, attracting     
  • LAST CHANCE: Enter Inhabitat’s Back To School ...
    Enter Inhabitat's 2013 Back to School Contest! We can't believe how fast summer flew by - but now that fall is on the horizon it's time to start getting ready for a green school year - and Inhabitat is here to help with our 2013 Back to School Contest! This     
  • World’s Largest Solar-Powered Boat Lands in Lo ...
    Earlier this June, the transatlantic speed record-holding solar catamaran was converted into a scientific platform to collect data between on the Gulf Stream between Oostende and London. The researchers say that the Tûranor PlanetSolar presented the researchers     
  • Solar-Powered, Spinach-Growing Mars Greenhouse ...
    With the landing of the Mars Rover, many feel we're closer than ever to establishing the first Mars colony - but there's still the question of how to sustain humans on a dead planet. Fortunately, a group of Greek students have come up with a deployable greenhouse     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Odd Spiral Galaxy
    Lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At this distance it is a relatively nearby ...     
  • Striking Patterns: Study Suggests Tool Use and ...
    When did humans start talking? There are nearly as many answers to this perplexing question as there are researchers studying it. A new brain imaging study claims to support the hypothesis that language emerged long before Homo sapiens and coevolved ...     
  • AI Could Help Predict Which Flu Virus Will Cau ...
    Machine learning techniques are helping scientists pinpoint the mutations that allow bird and pig viruses to infect humans.     
  • Space Photo of the Day: Sparkling, Psychedelic ...
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile star-forming region, called the 30 Doradus Nebula, has a sparkling stellar centerpiece: the ...     
  • Hidden in Paradise: Fascinating, Rare Dolphins ...
    Many species of whales and dolphins are rarely seen, and seldom studied. These animals slip stealthily between the waves at the surface and retreat into a deep blue world that we know very little about. Here are images of some ...     

PakAlert

  • US and NATO backed rebels admit responsibility ...
    Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accide ...
  • Bombshell: Britain sold nerve gas chemicals to ...
    Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accide ...
  • 6 Important Stories Silenced by Syria War Drums
    The news cycle has been completely hijacked by the one-two punch of Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs and the relentless march to war in Syria. Thankfully, the Miley Cyrus non-story has receded. But if the U.S. Congress votes against striking Syria and the event essentially fades into the back ...
  • Syrian Electronic Army hacks recruiting site, ...
    As the US moves closer to a military strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army has made one of its most obvious political statements yet. Earlier today, the group successfully defaced the Marines.com recruiting website, posting a plea for service membe ...
  • Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Adva ...
    Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles. In fact, the P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles that Russia has equipped Syria with are the most advanced anti-ship missiles that Russia has. When the United States strikes Syria, they might be ...

Andy Worthington

  • GTMO Clock: 100 Days Since President Obama Pro ...
    Getting men released from Guantánamo has become more difficult than getting blood out of a stone, even though over half of the 164 men still held were approved for release in January 2010 by President Obama’s high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force. Please visit, like, share ...
  • I’m on Holiday for Two Weeks: Please Kee ...
    Click on the image to visit the GTMO Clock website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. I’m away with my family to Sicily for two sun-drenched weeks of rest and relaxation — a ...
  • Guantánamo: British Ex-Intelligence Officer On ...
    On Monday, Harry Ferguson, 52, a former officer with MI6, the British intelligence agency, began a week-long hunger strike, as part of the Stand Fast for Justice initiative launched by the legal action charity Reprieve, in support of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay — and, in particular, Sh ...
  • Congratulations to John Grisham for Writing ab ...
    In the long and horrendous history of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, it has been noticeable that very few celebrities have challenged the myriad injustices of Guantánamo — the torture; the indefinite detention without charge or trial; the decision by the Bush adm ...
  • Endless Injustice: Newly Announced Guantánamo ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Silver’s gold standards for stats
    Nate Silver’s Statistical Standards: Statistics aren’t just numbers Data requires context Correlation is not causation The average is still the most useful statistical tool ever invented Human intuition can often cause errors when it comes to making statistical judgments and inferenc ...
  • Could rhyming save the world?
    Could a rhyming comic book help save the world? The Universe Verse is an illustrated, rhyming ode to science that appeals to the child in anyone, and it’s raising money on Kickstarter.com until Sept 29th. Fun-loving author and illustrator James Lu Dunbar has just launched a fundraising cam ...
  • Elemental discoveries – ununpentium
    Experiments carried out between 14th July and 10th August 2003 involving scientists at Dubna (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at the U400 cyclotron with the Dubna gas-filled recoil separator, DGFRS) in Russia in a collaboration also involving scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National La ...
  • Earth calling Cassini
    People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back toward Earth to take our picture. The mission has assembled a collage from those images. ...
  • Sciencebase FeedMyReads Q&A #DBQuestions
    The excellent author-reader twitter community hosted by FeedMyReads (aka Fraser Stoopman), put out a call for questions from twitter users for me, sciencebase, this week. Fraser has been sharing my answers to the intriguing and amusing questions in a spate of tweets, but I thought I’d post ...

Common Dreams -News

Lifehacker

  • Use "Active Listening" to Get What You Want in ...
    Hostage negotiators have a tough job, and we can learn a lot about negotiation from how they do things on a daily basis. Over on Backing Up the Wrong Tree, FBI negotiator Chris Voss suggests that the first tip we can all take away from a hostage negotiator is "active listening." Read mor ...
  • Just Delete Me Is a Massive List of Links to C ...
    Removing yourself from the internet is not always an easy task and the biggest problem is tracking down all your online accounts so you can delete them. Just Delete Me is a site that provides you with direct links to doing just that. Read more...     
  • Challenge Winner: Hang Your Batteries for Easy ...
    In last week's Hacker Challenge, we asked you to share your best prescription pill bottle hack. We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us how to store your spare batteries out of the way, but where you can easily see them. Read more...     
  • Amazon announced the new version of its Kindle ...
    Amazon announced the new version of its Kindle Paperwhite today. The updated Paperwhite has higher contrast, a better processor, Goodreads integration, and a ton of other new features. Read more...     
  • Remote File Manager Sneaks a SNES Emulator Ont ...
    iOS: Technically, Apple doesn't allow game emulators into the App Store. However, every once in a while, an emulator sneaks in. Remote File Manager is one of those apps. Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Pinellas County is a delinquent taxpayer, Pasc ...
    The water wars between Pasco and Pinellas counties may be ancient history, but a new fight is brewing — this time, over property taxes.
  • Paula Dockery: Florida’s water wars
    Water issues are back in the news. Florida elected officials are once again vowing to take action and to provide funding for water-related issues.
  • Water wars: WUC incurs FCC councillors' wrath
    FRANCISTOWN: Councillors here have blasted the snail's pace approach taken by the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) in solving the water crisis in the city. One councillor, however, deviated from the stance taken by most his colleagues.
  • Water fight continues at Chico forum
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...
  • Garamendi wants to defend Sacramento River
    Water wars are expensive and most often fruitless, but U.S. Rep. John Garamendi said he is willing to throw down the gauntlet to stop the governor's plan to build two underground tunnels that he believes have the potential to suck the Sacramento...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Growing Momentum
    Last week’s actions demonstrate a significant increase in momentum for the protesters since last November’s day of action in New York City and subsequent strikes in other cities.     
  • Good News, Bad News On ‘Mega-Canyon’ Found Und ...
    It's as big as the Grand Canyon in places and extends from almost the center of the island to right beneath the Petermann Glacier fjord in the north.     
  • Former Police Chief: Release Low-Level Offende ...
    In an op-ed published Tuesday by The Sacramento Bee, Gascón makes the argument from a law enforcer's perspective that the incarceration rate devastates communities and the already-strained prison system. The focus should be rehabilitation.     
  • CDC Predicts Obamacare May Help Reduce The Num ...
    The CDC estimates that about 200,000 deaths each year could be prevented with better access to health insurance.     
  • VIEWPOINT: Wildfires Pose A Major Threat To Ou ...
    Many of us are unaware that wildfires threaten our drinking water and our power supplies, more examples of the many unforeseen hazards of climate change.     

thwap's schoolyard

  • Quality
  • Nothing
    Pointlesssssss happy labour day
  • Robert Jensen on US American Democracy
    I agree with many of the sentiments here and think they apply to Canada as well. Let me be clear: I’m not suggesting that there is nothing democratic about the contemporary United States, nor am I suggesting that we live in a fascist state. It’s important to avoid rhetorical overkill. Rather, ...
  • Nothing Interests Me
    I don't even have the energy to waste time these days. But my blood work says I'm fine. It's a mystery.
  • What Dawg Said
    This entry is why I still read his blog. To begin with, there are several ways people tend to respond to an evil when they are confronted with evidence of it. They can say it never happened. They can say it isn’t what it appears. They can say it isn’t as bad as it appears. They can say they w ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • What should be done about the Syrian civil war?
    How should the world respond to the unfolding events in Syria? What can Canada do?
  • Our documents reveal Air Force’s disrega ...
    Steven Staples says the debate over German drones in Europe raise significant unease about drone safety in Canada. “It’s one thing to be flying a drone over the desert in Afghanistan but it’s something else to fly them over Ottawa or Toronto,” said Staples, adding that a deficiency in civilian ...
  • Sanctions? What sanctions?
    The Harper government has awarded a $400 million contract to SNC-Lavalin PAE Inc. just months after the group’s parent company was banned from bidding on Canadian aid projects due to multiple bribery and corruption scandals.
  • MPs endorse a nuclear weapons ban
    Ceasefire.ca would like to thank all volunteer campaigners across Canada, and to the many MPs who have voiced their support for peace and global nuclear disarmament.
  • Harper’s War Lobby is reacting to our campaign
    Last week the head of Canada’s largest defence industry lobby association, Tim Page, challenged us in a 700-word opinion piece published in the Ottawa Citizen. Read our reply.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-13-13
    Today, Kevin explains how every single person in America is technically breaking the law and how the IRS could take advantage of it. Plus, the author of Undateable, Anne Coyle, stops by to reveal the secret list of over 311 things that perfectly eligible guys manage to wear, say, or do to make t ...
  • Boost & Strengthen Your Immune System
    There are certain products that I endorse and recommend for anti-aging.  There are certain products that I endorse and recommend to change the way you think. And there are certain products that I travel with all the time. I always, always have Silver Hydrosol with me. I also pack Royal Velvet an ...
  • You Are What You Eat
    Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel, your energy, your sleep, your skin, and your digestion.  So, a lot of people come up to me and ask, “Kevin, what should I eat? What do YOU eat?” The simplest answer is number one; always avoid high fructose corn [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-3-13
    Today, Kevin goes into why the government has banned him from every Fox News network, every Disney owned television station and even USA Today & TIME Magazine! Get the latest news you won’t hear from those news sources! 100% of Non-Organic Chickens Carry Deadly Bacteria Secrets to Boost Your ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • CIA Trained Al Qaeda Cell To Enter Syria
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS sanctioned 50 man group to sneak over border into Syria with arms Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com Sept 3, 2013 The New York Times reports that a 50 man cell of “rebels” trained and armed by the CIA and US sp ...
  • The Congressional Vote On War with Syria Is To ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Congressional Vote On War with Syria Is Too Close to Call By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com How to Tell Your Congressman to Vote NO On War with Syria A top congressional aide told us that the congressional vote o ...
  • Congressional Progressive/Pentagon Caucus
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comCongressional Progressive/Pentagon Caucus By DavidSwansonwashingtonsblog.com Back in 2007, the Congressional Progressive Caucus helped organize 90 Congress members to commit to voting against war funding. Most of them tu ...
  • UK Parliament Votes No
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUK Parliament Votes No dissidentvoice.org By Lesley Docksey There has been an epidemic of outrage in the United Kingdom over the last few days, most of it coming from the great and not so good.The original cause was the ...
  • Boehner: ‘I’m Going to Support the President’s ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDANIEL HALPER The Weekly Standard September 3, 2013 Speaker of the House John Boehner says that he’ll support President Obama’s “call for action” in Syria: “The use of these weapons has to be responded to and only the Un ...

Dandelion Salad

  • UK Parliament Votes No: Will Syria Cut Us Down ...
    by Lesley Docksey Writer, Dandelion Salad England September 2, 2013 There has been an epidemic of outrage in the United Kingdom over the last few days, most of it coming from the great and not so good.  The original cause was the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.  With no hard evidence a ...
  • UK Parliament Votes No: Will Syria Cut Us Down ...
    by Lesley Docksey Writer, Dandelion Salad England September 2, 2013 There has been an epidemic of outrage in the United Kingdom over the last few days, most of it coming from the great and not so good.  The original cause was the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.  With no hard evidence a ...
  • Criminal Insanity of the U.S. Regime by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV September 2, 2013 They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. That adage applies more than ever to the president of the United States, his administration and the Wall Street flunkeys that sit in Congress. But the ...
  • Criminal Insanity of the U.S. Regime by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV September 2, 2013 They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. That adage applies more than ever to the president of the United States, his administration and the Wall Street flunkeys that sit in Congress. But the ...
  • Jesus of Montreal (1989; English subtitles)
    Dandelion Salad The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage (“le sanctuaire”) to present a Passion play in its gardens. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Montreal Andrew Nathan ...

Your New Reality

  • Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
    By Darryl Mason Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
  • What Happened To All The Outtakes From Stanley ...
    Oh, Stanley Kubrick, what did you do? Here's Stanley Kubrick's friend and key assisstant through three decades, Leon Vitali, on why there are no 'gag reels' or even alternate takes of classic scenes from his movies, anywhere on his DVDs and BlueRays. And Why There Never Will Be: "Outtakes a ...
  • No title
     Deadwood Actor Kevin Spacey lists 17 groundbreaking, thrillmaking TV shows he thinks everyone should watch. I'm way behind on these... The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Weeds, Homeland, Dexter, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, Oz, The Wire, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Mad ...
  • Wanna Live The McMerican Dream
    I don't have a McDonalds related story to go with all this, just wanted to run some amazing related, and historic, photos. (source) Has the design used for this first US McDonalds drive-in resturantt, at San Bernadino, California, in 1948, ever been bettered? All style.   Early McD ...
  • Our Name Is Bonds, James Bonds
     Lee Tamahori (Once Werev Warriors), the director of Die Another Day, had a fascinating idea about what was really going on in the James Bond movies: "My idea was basically that there have been several Bonds. It's just a prefix and a code name Even James Bond is not the guy's name. "That' ...

Wired - Science

  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Odd Spiral Galaxy
    Lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At this distance it is a relatively nearby ...     
  • Striking Patterns: Study Suggests Tool Use and ...
    When did humans start talking? There are nearly as many answers to this perplexing question as there are researchers studying it. A new brain imaging study claims to support the hypothesis that language emerged long before Homo sapiens and coevolved ...     
  • AI Could Help Predict Which Flu Virus Will Cau ...
    Machine learning techniques are helping scientists pinpoint the mutations that allow bird and pig viruses to infect humans.     
  • Space Photo of the Day: Sparkling, Psychedelic ...
    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile star-forming region, called the 30 Doradus Nebula, has a sparkling stellar centerpiece: the ...     
  • Hidden in Paradise: Fascinating, Rare Dolphins ...
    Many species of whales and dolphins are rarely seen, and seldom studied. These animals slip stealthily between the waves at the surface and retreat into a deep blue world that we know very little about. Here are images of some ...     

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Assaf Kfoury: The background to the July 3, 20 ...
    The greatest illusion about the cataclysmic events shaking Egypt is that, during the truncated one-year presidency of Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian military had been forced to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • IOA status update
    After nearly five years of operation, the IOA website is suspending regular content uploads. Having started immediately after Israel’s attack on Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009, the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jonathan Cook: When they fail, peace talks wil ...
    It may not have reached the level of fevered expectation unleashed by that famous handshake between Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the White House lawn in 1993, but the sense of hope inspired by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli army recruitment plan a ...
    Leaders from the [Israeli] Palestinian community, Christian and Muslim, who have spoken against this new [IDF] enlistment effort have been called in for investigation by Israel’s secret police. In an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine peace talks, ...
    Noam Chomsky covers the upcoming Israel-Palestine 'peace talks' and the history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; settlements, the Occupation and the 'One-State' and 'Two-State' solutions; US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

Pruning Shears

  • Shoddy gun paper excites right wing
    There is new interest in a 2007 study by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser. “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” was published in Harvard’s Journal of Public Law and Policy and has been cited recently on a number of political blogs, message boards, even on a popular ...
  • A brief review of bad reporting
    Ever since Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s first story on NSA surveillance back in June there have been various attempts to discredit him. Most has been garden variety stuff, the kind of thing it’s usually better to ignore lest it get more oxygen. A post by BooMan earlier thi ...
  • Additional planks for the platform
    On Monday lambert posted a call for a re-formulated 12-word platform; Tuesday I responded with what I tentatively called the Bumper Sticker Platform (BSP). These may be two slightly different things though. My goal is to create a campaign slogan - something that easily fits on a sign or bumper ...
  • Bumper Sticker Platform, 2013 edition
    On a Saturday morning a few years ago I dashed off a quick caffeine-fueled post that tried to formulate a simple but substantive platform for the left. It was partially a reaction to the prior couple years of conservative rhetoric. During the 2008 campaign the right insisted Barack Obama was a ...
  • Summer vacation
    Taking the week off. Back next week!

Organic Consumers.org

  • This Week's Newsletter: Killer Coke's Desperat ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Florida Citrus Farm Kills Millions of Bees wit ...
    A huge Florida citrus farm is being fined by state officials for poisoning millions of honeybees to death - but it's not being fined very much.Click here to read this article
  • Garden Plants Are Treated with Bee-Killing Pes ...
    There are about 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of food globally and, of these, 71 are pollinated by bees. In the US alone, a full one-third of the food supply depends on pollination from bees. I mention this to stress the full ramifications of bee die-offs, which continue unabated.Clic ...
  • Our Organic and GMO-Free Policy - Dr. Andrew W ...
    I strongly support organic farming, which avoids the application of synthetic chemicals to food crops, and uses no genetically modified organisms (GMOs).Click here to read this article
  • Breaking: Courts Discreetly Confirm MMR Vaccin ...
    You won't hear anything about it from the mainstream media, but the federal government's kangaroo "vaccine court" has once again conceded, albeit quietly, that the combination measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine does, indeed, cause autism. In a recently published ruling, part of which was c ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • WWF’s Farmed Salmon Certification Initiative: ...
    The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a new campaign relating to salmon aquaculture—but if the organization is partnering with corporations, how successful will it really be? WWF’s partnerships with various corporations to foster sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices are part of ...
  • Response to Donald Kennedy on Antibiotics in F ...
    For decades, scientists and advocates have called for mandatory restrictions. While other countries have heeded these calls, the FDA has focused on voluntary reform.
  • Food Systems and Patient Care: Notes from a Di ...
    My time with CLF this week allowed me to interact directly with community members as they participated in various aspects of Baltimore City’s food system.
  • CLF Week in Links: Atrazine, Hayes, Deformed F ...
    Big Pharma’s influence on research is especially disturbing as the weakening economy puts further pressure on public entities to seek private funding, through association with companies like Novartis, compromising independence and scientific integrity.
  • We Bought the Farm
    How are young, new farmers supposed to be able to do this?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • The Truth About War With Syria
    Stefan Molyneux discusses the principles of war, how they apply to the current Syrian crisis and the blatant hypocrisy of the United States government. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • George Carlin talks on concern for the environment
    Warning - vulgarity and coarse humour to puncture staid poseurs' bubble Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Ga ...
    U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
  • Science Under Assault
    A scathing expose of the use of prevarication to delude and misinform under the rubric of 'science' Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Spotlight on Junk Science
    I subscribed to the principia scientific email updates Here are selected articles Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • Beware the Changing Face of Genetic Modification
    New genetic engineering techniques such as oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis may bypass already flimsy GM regulations.
  • Crop Expert to Speak on GMO Impact in Washington
    Howard Vlieger, a third generation farmer from Iowa, will be speaking in Eastern Washington to share information about the impacts of genetically engineered crops on farming operations, livestock and weeds. Mr Vlieger has studied genetically engineered (GE) crops since 1994. The presentations ar ...
  • Leon and Barb discuss current GMO events on Fa ...
    Topics include: Plans to release genetically engineered flies in Spain and Italy;Minnesota Jury Convicts Peaceful Farmer on Five Charges;Ending the GMO Scourge;The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption;Dow's controversial new GMO corn delayed amid protests.
  • The Real Terrorists – Graphic
    Now tell me who the real terrorists are....
  • It Is Time for the American People to Man Up
    I am calling for the military leaders of this country to stand down and not execute this illegal war. Waging war on Syria is indeed illegal. Obama’s orders delivered through the UN and NATO are illegal and unconstitutional. Be an Oathkeeper and stand down.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Vladimir Putin takes field trip to aquarium, g ...
    ShareThisVladimir Putin takes field trip to aquarium, gives high five to walrus 02 Sep 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin visited an "oceanarium" that is being built on Russky Island in Vladivostok on Sunday. While there, according to the Presidential Press and Information Office, Putin "watc ...
  • White House to Congress: Help protect Israel
    ShareThisAh, then came the dawn. White House to Congress: Help protect Israel 02 Sep 2013 The Obama administration is using a time-tested pitch to get Congress to back military strikes in Syria: It will help protect Israel. Israel's enemies, including Iran and the terrorist rebel group Hezboll ...
  • KBR Seeks Combat Immunity in Soldier Toxic-Exp ...
    ShareThisKBR Seeks Combat Immunity in Soldier Toxic-Exposure Suit 03 Sep 2013 KBR Inc. is invoking federal laws shielding contractors during wartime to avoid a Texas trial over injuries claimed by troops who were exposed to [KBR's] toxic chemicals while guarding a work site in Iraq. KBR is set t ...
  • Iraq: British Troops Deny Mutilation Claims
    ShareThisIraq: British Troops Deny Mutilation Claims 02 Sep 2013 Bodies of insurgents killed in a battle in Iraq were not mutilated by British troops, nor were detainees mistreated, a public inquiry has heard. On the first day of evidence from military witnesses, the Al-Sweady Inquiry was told t ...
  • British police arrest 16 non-proliferation act ...
    ShareThisBritish police arrest 16 non-proliferation activists at nuclear site 02 Sep 2013 Police have arrested 16 people attending a demonstration at a nuclear weapons facility owned by UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE). The rally started on early Monday in the southern village Burghfie ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: 5 Reasons Not To Get The Flu Shot
      5 Reasons Not To Get The Flu Shot: 1. Seasonal Influenza (Flu) virus strains are constantly mutating from year to year. There is no criteria verifying the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines (composed of a grab-bag of several current circulating strains); while there is plent ...
  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
    02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
  • Syria: Outrage is Not a Strategy
    02 September 2013 Never Go to War without the Support of Your People In 2006, the talking points from London and Washington insisted: we had won the war in Afghanistan, and Iraq was not in civil war.  To say otherwise was apostasy. In 2006, British Defense Secretary John Reid was famou ...
  • Afghanistan to Syria
    30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
  • Afghanistan to Syria
    30 August 2013 Before reading my Monday dispatch on Syria, please read this previous dispatch from Afghanistan. British Member of Parliament Adam Holloway is a prominent figure in both. There be Dragons.
  • Monkey Business: Our Broken Army
    20 August 2013 The senior sergeant at the Army’s Warrior Adventure Quest (WAQ) at Fort Hood has been fired after allegedly endangering the lives of Boy Scouts. The accusation comes from a staff member at WAQ who claims that the Army Master Sergeant abused his position while using Army kayaks ...

The Killing Train

  • Update on John and Tarek: Met with prosecutor, ...
    August 30, 8:30am This morning, the district prosecutor in Cairo met with our lawyers, staff from the Canadian Embassy, and John and Tarek. This was the meeting that had been set for Thursday. The prosecutor said his own investigation was continuing and he was waiting for additional information ...
  • Update: Prosecutor did not appear, no hearing ...
    Aug 29, 2013, 11am After waiting the entire day outside the prison, and with curfew approaching, our lawyers had to leave as the prosecutor had not arrived by the end of the day. Tarek and John remain in prison. No word has come about rescheduling their appearance before the prosecutor. No other ...
  • Update: Day 11 consular meeting
    Aug 27, 5:20pm From http://tarekandjohn.com/2013/08/27/day-11-update/ It’s Day 11, and today Tarek and John were able to meet with consular officials for a meeting. Their morale and health continues to be good, which is encouraging. John & Tarek were also given updates about the internationa ...
  • NYT on Tarek and John
    Aug 25, 8:50am The NYT mentioned Tarek and John's case in an article about the widening crackdown in Egypt In general, for coverage about Tarek and John, support statements, and updates, please follow tarekandjohn.com. Here at podur.org, we will only be posting updates and statements from the po ...
  • Update: CBC interview with our lawyer
    Aug 23, 8:15am A representative from our law firm, Khaled El Shalakany, spoke with the CBC yesterday, summarizing Tarek and John's legal situation and the visit made to them yesterday at Tora prison. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/08/22/canadians-detained-egypt-lawyer-visit.html We cont ...

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ReDress News

  • Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
    Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
  • IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
    Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
  • What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
    Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
  • Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
    Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
  • Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
    Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
  • Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
      The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
  • European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
    Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
  • Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
    The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
  • Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
    Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener Report- Bandar Bush & the Syrian ...
    It has long been acknowledged that the Saudis have been one of the key players funding, arming, training and smuggling terrorists into Syria during the conflict. But the Saudi connection to the fighting in Syria took on a new dimension in the wake of last month’s chemical attack on Ghouta. ...
  • Obama Has Decided That It Is Safer To Buy Cong ...
    No one should expect the US Congress to vote on the basis of the evidence While still claiming dictatorial powers to start a war on his own authority, Obama put his unilateral attack on Syria on hold when he received a letter from more than 160 members of the House of Representatives reminding h ...
  • America’s Intelligence Budget Black Hole
    CIA: The President’s Pretorian Guard & Private Army On August 29, the Washington Post headlined “US spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary,” saying: Post-9/11, US spy agencies “built an intelligence-gather ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent with Guillermo Jimene ...
    The National Security State, Predictive Programming & 7/7 On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by author of the new book, Secrets, Spies and 7/7, Mr. Tom Secker. Guillermo and Tom discuss the book, the motivation for pursuing this area of research, and the lastin ...
  • Corbett Video Report: Who Is Really Behind the ...
    Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad’s government? Given that the pretext for attacking Syria is falling apart before the public’s eyes, why is the US preparing to wage war on that country? Who benefits from the ongoing destabilization of Assad’s government? W ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Kerry’s “Munich Moment” and Other Historical F ...
    When a country plans to go to war, the rhetoric leaders use to demonize the enemy and rouse the faithful are instructive.  George H.W. Bush called Saddam “a new Hitler.”  Saddam called the Iraq war the “mother of all battles.”  George W. Bush had his embarrassing “m ...
  • Israel Launches Amos-4 Satellite with Secret M ...
    The press has noted that Israel launched a new generation of “communications” satellite into orbit this week: the Amos-4.  Built by Israel Aerospace Industries at a cost of $365-million, it was successfully launched in Kazakhstan. What is less known is that the Amos-4 has an importan ...
  • Abusisi Wins Round Against Israeli Prison Service
    Dirar Abusisi was kidnapped over two years ago by the Mossad in Ukraine.  His is one of many similar cases in which both Israeli officials and Israeli “enemies” have been kidnapped abroad and rendered back to Israel where they are imprisoned for “security offenses.”  Abus ...
  • Uganda Signs Pact for Israeli Weapons in Retur ...
    It’s one of the many terrible historical ironies of latter-day Zionism that a country Thedor Herzl once considered as a site for his Jewish homeland, Uganda, has inked a secret deal to accept thousands of African refugees Israel wants to be rid of.  The only ones who are missing the irony ...
  • U.S.’ Planned Syria Attack Hits Roadblock
    Today has been a most interesting and strange day regarding Syria. We’ve gone from an imminent U.S.-allied attack on Syria to a complete disruption of this plan. Earlier this week, one media report even said to expect an attack today. But a strange thing happened on the way to Damascus: to ...

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